Ben Bernanke Did Not Save Us from a Second Great Depression

The Wall Street Journal felt the need to tell readers that Bernanke's action to provide liquidity to the banking system:

"may have prevented a repeat of the Great Depression."

This is not true. We know how to reinflate an economy after a collapse. It just requires massive amounts of government spending, as happened during World War II. The first Great Depression was not caused just by the failure to counter the initial financial crisis effectively. It was attributable to an inadequate policy ...